Yet another school shooting has rendered 17 families without loved ones, a school with a broken heart, and an entire nation in fear. School shootings represent an unfortunate, recurring predicament in this country. The time has come when we can no longer ignore it. We must search for real solutions; this must begin with ourselves....
As critics rightly scathed North Korea for masking human-rights atrocities with a red-clad female cheer squad during the Pyeongchang Olympics last month, another high-profile human-rights abuser at the games escaped such negative attention — as it usually does. China’s human-rights offenses and tepid friendliness with North Korea are widely reported. Yet the country — a...
In the middle of formal recruitment my freshman year, I called home. I wanted to get the heck out. Fuming on the phone to my family that sororities were just an arbitrary social construct prone to the cultivation of facades, my dad interrupted me: “And is there anything wrong with that?” I didn’t get the...
When the men’s leadership honorary Mortar Board declined women’s petitions for membership, Hillsdale’s women decided to start their own in 1949. Seventy years later, Lamplighters remains a body of eight young women in leadership roles on campus. Last week, the women of Lamplighters chose rising seniors to fill their shoes. They are: Ellen Friesen, Lucile...
What do violin strings, paint can lids, and deer antlers all have in common? Sophomore Jordan Monnin can turn them into jewelry. Monnin started making jewelry five years ago after being inspired by some handmade jewelry at a fair. Although he works primarily with steel, he has also used bone, paint can lids, deer antlers,...